Hydro’s Overflowing Dams, Huge Losses Due to Private Power
This is neither a complicated nor a long story – but it’s a tragic vindication for a hell of a lot of people who have been telling the story, ignored…
May 2012
Hydro’s Overflowing Reservoirs, Huge Losses Vindicate Our Criticism of Private Power
This is neither a complicated nor a long story – but it’s a tragic vindication for a hell of a lot of people who have been telling the story, ignored…
The Quebec Students: If You Can’t Beat Them Cane Them
Well I suppose it was inevitable eh? Ever since the Quebec students began marching, the Con media has been attacking them like a pack of rabid hyenas. The Con liberal…
Parenting, The Unpaid Work That Powers The World
My Mother hates Mothers Day. Her assertion has always been that many of these so-called feel-good holidays are just constructs of card companies and retailers designed to make people part…
To those who think free education means lower quality,
In Finland, Denmark, and Sweden, post-secondary education is free, and in the 2011 Global talent index of 62 countries, Finland, Denmark, and Sweden finished in second, third, and eighth positions…
Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – Joan Bryden reports on the Cons’ latest abuses of majority government power, this time in allocating and shuffling around the few opposition days…
Who is Mitt Romney?
Mitt Romney’s favourite game is flip-flops and he constantly changes his position on numerous issues that it is hard to tell who this guy is. The best description of him…
4633…News Flash: Romney Against Gay Marriage
It is in every newspaper on the planet this morning. Every newspaper on the planet also reported the following: The sky is blue. Water is wet. The Toronto Maple Leafs…
Accepting Failure in Afghanistan
We went in full of self-righteous anger, the images of jetliners flying into office towers burned into our brains. The idea was to eradicate al-Qaeda and topple the Taliban government…
Mom’s workhouse: How one woman put 11 kids to work for the greater good.
This Mother’s Day will mark the 27th straight without a mother to celebrate. That’s almost half my life without a mother, and you’d think that the memories of her would…
May 13: Acadienouvelle
About a week ago, a reader asked me to comment on the quality of Acadienouvelle. So, on a Sunday morning, here’s a general impression. The standard of journalism is clearly…
4632…Today Is A Bad Day To Die
As if there was ever a good day. Actually today, yesterday, last week were bad days to die for your family. Pourquoi you ax? Becuz today is Mother’s Day and…
Let’em Eat Cake
When the going gets tough, the tough tell the weak to “shove off.” Apparently overlooking the fact that Britain is officially in a double-dip recession and wracked with unemployment, the…
Reappropriating Mother’s Day
Forget Hallmark and Big Flora — Mother’s Day is (and always has been) for radicals: Mother’s Day began in America in 1870 when Julia Ward Howe wrote the Mother’s Day…
When Does An Assembly Become Unlawful?
Because we were rather busy yesterday preparing a small celebration marking my sister-in-law’s retirement at an enviably young age, I am just getting caught up on my Saturday newspaper reading.…
Lessons From Europe
Tony Burman offers some important insights into the current situation in Europe. He suggests that there are similarities between 1912 and 2012: No inkling yet of the Great Wars to…
How can members represent their constituents?
We here, along with a number of other concerned Canadians have been pointing out the escalating decline of our democratic institutions, our access to accurate and timely information, the increasingly…
Coastal discouragement
Before being elected government in 2001, BC Liberals promised to appoint an independent inquiry into the “mismanagement of BC Ferries.” That promise, like many others made by Gordon Campbell, fell…